Palazzo Pitti - Firenze

Florence, Italy

Cosimo I dei Medici chose this Palazzo as home of his family. Palazzo Pitti was home also to the Houses of Lorraine and Savoy.
Now the Palazzo houses many large collections of paintings and sculptures, decorative art objects, porcelain and a museum of costumes. I includes the Boboli Gardens, one of the most well-known Italian-style gardens.
Housed in the Palazzo Pitti’s 18th-century Palazzina della Meridiana, the Costume Gallery has about 6,000 clothes, theatrical costumes and accessories, making it one of the world’s most important fashion museums. The exhibits, which change every two years, comprise a wide selection of clothes from the 18th to the 20th centuries. They are displayed on a rotating basis in order to ensure their preservation and to illustrate individual collections in their entirety.